I have not forgotten it! Promise! I've just been so buisy all day with the last of my final exams and shopping and hanging with friends and such... But here it is :-)
I know, i know... This day's topic is geeky and wired! But I'm both those things, so live with it! When I said editor, I ment any editor of either movies or pictures or anything else it's possible to edit. So on that note, here's my favorite editor of all time:
GEN IP!
Whaaat! Who's this? Is it even a name? As a matter of fact it is... She's a girl from Vancover that has just now graduated from college with an BA in Communications. But the place that made her famous to the world was indeed Youtube under her username Genrocks. Empire posted her "Filmography 2010"-video about two years ago... and I fell in love! She was just sooooo good! Don't believe it? See for yourself...
I have edited quite a qouple of videos, and this is HARD! It took her over a month to edit... No wonder. She's made 270 films fit into 6 minutes! She even made a lot of crappy movies look gorgeous, and the good ones all got their moments to shine. I've watched this so many times I know almost half of the movie by heart <3
When the end of 2011 came, I kind of wondered how she was going to be able to repeat the success... Luckily I was not disappointed! The only difference was that 2011 was a bad movie year (according to me), but to compensate she'd become even better than last year.
Last, but not least, I have to mention the absolutley stunning mashup she made of the journey through all the years of Harry Potter. Never have I seen a more beautiful Harry Potter-tribute made with so much feeling and filled with so many memories. It's truly become one of the most loved Harry Potter-mashup in the web community! I will stop blabbering now, and you should indeed take a few minutes to watch this before you leave :)
Woho! It's starting! It's time to reveal my first favorite thing. And the first thing up is, as most of you probably know already, favorite TV-series. (For details on the the challenge, head over here.) And if you want to you can totally leave the link to your blog-post down in the comments :)
It's honestly some hard category to start up with... What happened to nice and slow? You see, I don't have just one TV-series I love! I have at least five! But I have decided that I have to pick one as my favorite. The toss-up is between (in random order) Glee, The Vampire Diaries, House, Rookie Blue and So You Think You Can Dance. "Do you watch these things? Most of them are for teens!" I know! But I love them anyway. Don't judge! When I sit down to watch an episode of a TV-series it's meant to give me a break from all the other tings I do all day. I want to be entertained! To laugh and smile and cry and be excited.
Glee gives me joy to watch. It's so adorable but it also adresses a lot of important issues in scociety and in life in general. In one minute I find myself singing along grinning like a fool when they play a song I like, and in the next minute I can tear up because of things like bullying, prejudices and broken dreams.
Vampire Diaries, on the other hand, is very exciting, engaging and at times nerve-wracking. I dont care much about the fact that they are actually a bunch of vampires, werewolfs and witches... Its the personalities I love! There are literally no stereotypes here. And I love Damon Salvatore, the brother of the main character's boyfriend! I have rarely been presented such an interesting, deep, highly unpredictable and constantly changing character, and the actor, Ian Sommerhalder, is awesome.
House is for nerds. Which means I have totally screwed up humor! I go to school together with a lot of science-nerds, and even thought I'm not one of them myself (I loath math) I have come to understand and like the humor. House himself is despicable, but like Damon he's just so interesting! I started on season one about two years ago, and now I've reached the beginning of season eight, and I still love it.
So You Think You Can Dance is one of the things I look forward to each spring. It's one of those series that airs during the summer unlike most TV-programs. The reason why I love this is quite obvious: I love dance and I love to dance! It's just so inspiring, like watching a living art gallery, just that it's a dance show. You get to know the contestants through the season, and the judges are fantastic as always.
But, my favorite is a quite unusual choice...
My favorite television-series is Rookie Blue!
It's a Canadian police drama started in 2010, now in it's third season. It too only airs during the summer... The series is about five fresh rookies and how they handle the real life as a cop. You think that doesn't sound exciting? No, you're right, it doesn't. But it is! And the reason for that is that it's all so real and realistic. I've watched a lot of different agent-type TV-series (Alias, CSY, Covert Affairs and so on...) bit none of them are very realistic. Since this one is not produced in Hollywood, not even in the States, it had a whole different kind of truthfulness about it.
Here we get to see a cop's everyday life, with ups and downs. After watching this I started, for the first time, to think of the people behind the uniforms. What they feel like searching a house for a murderer. How terrifying and horrible a child-abduction can be for the cop in charge of the investigation. How a cop actually feel both during and after a fire. I could name countless examples, but I think you got the picture. In adition to all of this the actors are great! With Missy Peregrym (Andy McNally) and Ben Bass (Sam Swaerk) as the leading characters.
All in all, I love it, and I highly recommend you to see it!
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I know the week has already started, but there honestly is no perfect or even preferable way to split 100 days into weeks. So, like I said earlier, I just decided to start today. I mean, why not? (Yes, yes, it's only 1:30 AM... but it is May 30th nonetheless!) And by the way, these pictures, and a lot more to come, are taken by the fantastically gifted Elisabeth over at Drops Of Art. Go check out all of her other photos! To prevent myself from blabbering too much I think its just best to reveal this weeks topics, from today until Sunday:
Photographer - Elisabeth
As you can see all of them has to do with film, TV or music... but I promise I picked randomly! Although I won't complain... I love all of those three things <3 (Shocker! I made the topics...) But as I said, we will be keeping to the topics I picked and to the order in which they wanted to jump out of the jar. Which means:
So, I suddenly wanted to start a challenge... Actually It was just an idea that sprung to my head since my blog had been kind of dull and lifeless for a while now. I thought to myself, (while being completely covered in dust as I have been trying to uncover my bedroom from underneath it's coat of clothes, dust and random mess that often finds it's way into my "gigantic" room!) I thought: Why not write about things I like? That was rapidly followed by another unavoidable question: What is it that I really like? And how in the whole, wide world would I be able to choose? I can never decide what I want to write about... That's my problem! That's why there are so few posts here. If you add all of the unfinished drafts and ideas that until this day remain unpublished, and all of the blogs I have startet (and ended) all over Cyber-space, I would probably have written a whole book by now... But like I said, I luckily came up with an answer!
The answer is: The Favorite-Challenge! All in all it's truly very simple, and you've probably joined something similar before. The idea is that I (and whoever wants to join me) tell you guys about one of my favorite things each day. "That's it?" you say. Yepp! But there are a few, and I repeat, a few rules to this mess. Simply to prevent, eh, a mess. So, without further due, here are is the way it's going to work:
- Each Sunday I will pull out seven of the pieces of paper at random. One for each day. Than I will create a blogpost where I reveal this weeks topics and on what day we'll be doing which. That way we can all do the same topic on the same day...
- Then all you (and of course I) have to do is to create a post on our different blogs revealing your favorite of the day.
- I will do one each day, but if you want to join you can of course skip some days, or maybe do one a week? Or just some at random whenever you feel like it? I'm not at all strict or judgmental, so feel free to do whatever you like!
("You're pirates. Hang the code, and hang the rules. They're more like guidelines anyway.")
- If you want to try the every-day-version you do not have to panic if you miss one here and there. You can either skip them or just post two favorite things the next day. Yes, you heard me right, you can actually do some of them together!
- If you wondered if there were some kind of rules to how long (or short) the post has to be, the answer is: I'm not particularly fond of rules, so no, there aren't. Feel free to write as much or little you feel like! But it's always very interesting to get at least some explanation why you have chosen what you have :)
- Additionally I have to say that you don't have to write your own blog post if you don't want to... You can also just leave an answer in the comments below if you like!
- Last but not least, I thought it would be fun to read your answers, and so do probably a lot of others... So if you feel like it you can leave the link to your blog post in a comment below mine, and I will collect them all and make a list out of it. (Just put the link to the post in question though, not to the entire blog. In that way people like me, who does not find what is probably right under their noses, don't have to get completely lost in search of the right post!)
As I always am when I get a new and (to me) exciting idea, I simply can't wait to get started! So, as the head of my own challenge, I decide that it will kick off already tomorrow! Wednesday May 30th will be the first day of the challenge, so get ready, and invite all of your friends and co-bloggers... This is going to be fun!
Contrary to common believes I am actually following the read-along... sort of. It's just that right now I'm almost totally buried in exams and reading and such!
In case you haven't heard of the read-along, or just don't know what a read-along actually is, you can find it out by reading this post by our host the Little Red Reviewer. Basically we are a bunch of bloggers from all over the world who are reading and discussing the book Read Seas Under Red Skies by Scott Lynch. It's the sequel to The Lies of Locke Lamora and book number two in the Gentlemen Bastards-sequence.
Yes, I am aware of the fact that this read-along started April 23th... A looong time ago! And even though I wanted so badly to participate from the beginning I had to, and still have to, prioritize school, unfortunatly. But I just finished my first of the five exams I'm going to have, so between this one and the next I have some catching up to do here!
I have to mention that I've already read the book once, about two months ago, and I absolutly loved it! Even though I have read quite a lot of books in my life, I have to place this one on the number one spot, just a centimetre over Lies of Locke Lamora.
Since you guys are so far into the read-along, I decided that I'd sum up the three first weeks by answering some of the questions from each section, and then end with this weeks questions at the bottom, so here they are!
Week one:
1. The Sinspire. It looks like our heroes (can they really be called that?) find themselves in search of a way into an unbeatable vault. Do you think they have what it takes to make it happen?
If someone can do it, it has to be Locke and Jean. If it can be done, they'll do it, and if not they'll probably do it anyway just to see what happens if they try. I believe they live for the thrill of doing things other people count as impossible... And that's why we love them!
3. It’s a little different this time around, with us just being focused on Locke and Jean. Is anyone else missing the rest of the Bastards as much as I am?
Well, I have to say I did not miss them as much as I thought I would... But as many of you have pointed out (yes, I actually read your answers every week!), It would have been a whole diferent thing if this book was set in Camorr as well. But Tal Verarr is a whole other story! It's like Lynch raised the bar and took everything to a whole other level, and we have all known for a while that Locke and Jean were and are the cleverest of all the Bastards. It's like they were made to work together, and the dynamic between the two of them is the main thing keeping me from missing the others too much.
4. I love the section where Jean starts to build a new guild of thieves. It really shows just how well trained and tough he is. Do you think the Bastards will end up training others along the way again like Bug?
We have always been told Jean has the muscles and Locke has the brains, but here it suddenly changed. We got to see a whole new side to Jean that I have to say I didn't expect. And I loved it!
Week two:
1. Now that we know a little more about Selendri and Requin, what do you think of them? I worry Locke is suddenly realizing this con might be a bit tougher than he expected.
Everything can not always go perfectly and according to plan! What kind of boring book-ish thing would this be then? That being said, do not underestimate Locke...
5. And who the heck is trying to kill Locke and Jean every few days? they just almost got poisoned (again!)!
I remember suspecting a lot of different people, but I could never figure it out! Not until we got to know, and then I didn't understand anything, and then it all made perfect sense.
6. Do you really think it’s possibly for a city rat like Locke to fake his way onto a Pirate ship?
Haha! It's going to be so funny! The whole thing reminded me quite a bit of the scene from the Mulan-film with the song called "I'll Make A Man Out Of You". Just think about it for a moment and you'll understand exactly how funny the comparison is!
Week three:
1. Locke and Jean’s ability to find themselves at the center of a serious mess seems unparalleled. At this point, do you think that Stragos will get the return he expects on his investment in them?
I never for a second thought he would. I'm cuite like Locke in one thing: We both hate to be forced to do things! I believe they will pretend to play along (just so they won't get killed right away) while their brains are constantly working up alternate planes and possible escape-routes. They are true survivors; Adapt or die.
2. Merrain’s activities after our boys leave Windward Rock are interesting. What do you think her plans are?
Let's just say that we all got the fact that sha's not really a Locke-fan.
3. Does anyone know why having cats aboard the ship is so important?
Well... I think its just a detail Lynch made up just so that he could make Locke forget all about it and get into even bigger troubles than he's already head-first into! And it's such a sweet little thing for big sailors to be arguing and fighting about <3
6. Jean is developing more and more as a character as we get further in to the book. Ezri makes the comment to him that “Out here, the past is a currency, Jerome. Sometimes it’s the only one we have.” I think several interesting possibilities are coming into play regarding Jean and Ezri. What about you?
Like I've probably said a thousand times before, I love Jean. He's just so sweet and down-to-earth and simply a nice guy. He deserves to be happy, so why not with her? I mean, if it was ever going to be someone, it would indeed be a girl like Ezri. Locke is amazing, but he has to let Jean decide over his own life and not hold him down...
WEEK FOUR:
1) I was much relieved when Jean and Locke made up, which started with Locke’s gesture of a cup full of honesty with Cpt. Drakasha. Do you think that was hard for Locke? Or was he using this bit of honesty like any other weapon in his arsenal to get what he wants in the end?
Absolutely everything Locke does is done for a reason. Wether its conscious or unconscious from his side... I was just glad the thing with Jean worked out. They are close to perfect together as well as they fulfill each other, so it was about time Locke apologized so that they could continue to get in impossible and deadly situationes together!
2) The Parlor Passage: We still don’t know Locke’s true name, but whatever was in that mist does. What do you think it is?
Honestly, at this point i'd rather not know. It's a part of his identity, his image. We are not supposed to know his true name. Because if we get to know it, and if it's horrible and not at all like I imagined it, it will kind of ruin a part of the picture of Locke in my mind... If he's going to have a name, it had to be perfect! And that's close to impossible.
3) There was an interesting section of the book that started about where Locke assisted Drakasha in selling the Red Messenger; he put on the persona of Leocanto Kosta and used the alias Tavras Callas and then Drakasha was still thinking of him as Ravelle….. Did using all those various aliases in such a short amount of time have your mind spinning a little? Do you think Lynch did this on purpose to give the reader a sense of Locke’s mind?
"The speed with which they'd assumed these roles led Zamira to infer they'd used theme elsewere."
I love the Sherlock Holmes-films. The ones with Robert Downey Jr. They clearly shows us what goes on inside the head of the mastermind himself! That's what I feel happened here. Normally we (the readers) only have to remember one of Locke and Jean's aliases, but here we truly get a sence of just how complicated their trade is looking from the inside out! The other thing I love about this scene is the fact that Drakasha finally gets to see just how talented Locke is in his true element: Scams and deception-games. He's an artist! I mean Orrin Ravelle, Jerome Valora, Locke Lamora, Leocanta Kosta, Jean Tannen, Jerome De Ferra and who knows how many more! No wonder Drakasha got a little confused...
5) Jean and Ezri. Cue dove-cooing and little winged hearts with sparkles. Do you think Jean will stay with the Poison Orchid or that Ezri will leave her ship to pal around with Jean and Locke?
Aw! I just love them! Like I said, they both deserve some happiness and love. But no matter how, one of them is going to have to give up their entire life as it is today, and I'm not really sure of who I want it to be. I mean, you have all seen just how good sea-legs Jean's got, but I really don't want him to leave Locke. And honestly, Locke is just not made for a life at sea...
7) So last week we hashed over that Merrain killed some of Stragos’s guards on Windward Rock. But when Jean and Locke visit him, he doesn’t mention it. What is up with that?
He just wants the results, no matter how they get there. But trust me, he's just the kind of guy that saves information like this for later use to his own benefit...
8) This week’s section left us where the book began – Jean pointing a crossbow at Locke’s throat. Do you think Jean knows who sent these crossbowers? Is he on their side? Is it a clever ploy to get him and Locke out of this predicament? Did you find it excruciatingly hard to stop here?
In danger of spilling a lot of spoilers I'm not saying anything... All I have to say is that, for a minute, I could not breathe. Can't wait to discuss this next week though!
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